How you all going?
Eric Bakker, the naturopath from all the way down in New Zealand.
Many patients have got parasites today, and particularly now, with the cheap air travel,
blastocystis hominis is endemic.
So many people have this parasite.
It's unbelievable how many times I see it now in stool tests, popping up.
I'd noticed that as the years went by, particularly the last 10, I'd say 15 years, that blasto
cases are just increasing and increasing and increasing.
But don't let it get you down.
Many clinicians don't even treat blasto any more.
They leave it alone.
I'll only treat blasto, really, if I see it a problem for the person, mentally, emotionally,
or physically.
I've often seen stool tests where one sample had some blastocystis in it.
The other two samples were clear, but the remainder of the test was in good shape.
So what did I do?
I did nothing.
There's no point going in there.
If the patient's in good condition, they've got the correct amount of body weight, their
energy is good, their sleep is good, their libido is good, everything is working for
them, why would you mess things up?
So don't get freaked out by the term of having a parasite in your gut.
I know it doesn't belong there, and generally, if you're in good shape or your health's improving,
the parasite will disappear.
I've found that in many cases.
However, if you have got this bug, as I've said in other videos, it's not good just to
focus purely on the blasto.
Focus on the gut itself and on your lifestyle and the factors that contribute to really
building good health.
So I'm trying to discourage you from looking at things that pull your health down, like
drinking alcohol, especially lots of alcohol, like smoking, not exercising, watching too
much Netflix, or spending too much time on your mobile phone or computer.
These are all not good things to do.
Okay, these will, in my opinion, contribute to increasing the parasite in the body, not
reducing it, so try and become a more active person, a person who gets out there doing
more with their life.
Maybe some type of exercise or sport.
But also, don't forego the value of emotional health.
So being involved with other groups of people, becoming a bit more social.
That could change your gut quite a lot.
There's a very powerful relationship with your emotional health and your gut health,
so if the emotional health's not in good shape, gut health's not going to be either, unfortunately.
And the other way round.
But just because you've got a diagnosis or know you've got blasto in the body, it shouldn't
really concern you too much.
If we did very specialized testing on you right now, through a German lab, and we tested
just about every genetic pathway we could, likely we'd find 20 or 50 things wrong with
you right now, right?
But are you going to keel over and die in a week because we found those things?
Likely not.
If I hadn't told you, you wouldn't even have known about those little things.
These could be slight defects on some biochemical pathways in your body, but you would have
never known it was a slight defect unless you were told.
And parasites can be the same.
People have lived with parasites for millions of years.
Parasites have been in people's bodies for a long, long time, but do you think they knew
about that?
It's only when you know about something that it becomes a problem, okay?
So that's my point of this video.
If you're feeling great, if the bowel's good, energy's good, if your whole life's working
really well and you know you've got some blasto in your body, a good tip is just to keep improving
your health and well-being, and eventually the parasite won't like to live in that body
any more.
Parasites are like criminals.
They look for advantage.
They look for opportunity.
They look for seedy kind of environments, you know, like dingy kind of bars and things
like that to hang around in, where they can do all their bad deeds.
Well, parasites are the same.
They're going to like a bowel that's full of base products and it doesn't get emptied
much and they're going to like a gut that gets peppered with junk food all the time
and lots of sugar and crap like that that they can feed on.
But if you clean all that up, you find that you make the environment more and more hostile
towards something like blasto.
It's going to go away.
It will disappear.
So don't freak out, okay?
Freaking out is not going to get you anywhere.
Going to bed and dreaming about parasites eating your brain and things like this.
I've seen so many questions on that: "OMG!
I go to bed and I can feel something crawling in my brain.
It must be a worm in my brain."
I mean, get out of here.
Worm in the brain!
These people should do something inventive with their lives, you know.
Make video games instead of having these weird dreams.
So don't get down with blasto.
Do something about it.
Improve your life.
Blasto will go away.
It's worked for a lot of my patients.
Thanks for tuning in.